Noel Cox FRHistS (born 3 June 1965) is a New Zealand-born lawyer, legal scholar, and Anglican priest. His contribution to nobiliary law is unprecedented.
Cox is a barrister, and a priest of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. He was Professor of Law, Aberystwyth University 2010-2014 and was Head of the Department of Law and Criminology 2010-2013. Previously he was professor of law at Auckland University of Technology. His major fields of research interest are constitutional law and ecclesiastical law. His work has been published in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He has presented conference papers in many countries, and been a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson and St Edmund’s Colleges) and The Australian National University (source Academia.edu).
Selection of publications
- Continuing Question of Sovereignty and the Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, The
- The Gradual Curtailment of the Royal Prerogative
- The revenge of the arcane exclusion clause: The civil registration of marriage and the Royal Family
- Commonwealth Heraldic Jurisdiction: with specific emphasis on the Law of Arms in New Zealand
- The acquisition of sovereignty by quasi-states: The case of the Order of Malta
- The intellectual property laws and the protection of armorial bearings
- The Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland and Continuity of Legal Authority
- The British Peerage: The Legal Standing of the Peerage and Baronetage in the overseas realms of the Crown with particular reference to New Zealand
- Irish heraldic law – problems of autochthony in a successor state
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